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November 13, 2018
African banks, insurance institutions and investors have been challenged to relax their stringent requirements for the funding of emerging agribusiness ventures on the continent. Industry experts made the clarion call during an agribusiness discussion at the inaugural […]
November 12, 2018
Minister of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), Senzeni Zokwana, recently announced the establishment of the Producer/Farmer Register (PFR). During the recent launch of the PFR, Zokwana said that the register would run from […]
November 8, 2018
The farm Lucky Valley just outside Douglas in the Northern Cape borders one of South Africa’s most important irrigation rivers, the Orange River. Here Johan Jacobs and his wife Colleen pursue their farming passions. Johan’s focus […]
November 7, 2018
It is essential that grain farmers start implementing precautionary measures to fend off gerbils as soon as possible, said Dr Gerhard Verdoorn, CropLife SA’s operations and stewardship manager. Registered rodenticides listed in CropLife’s gerbil management plan […]